The king will realize the trick if you freaking tell him to his face the trick, come on Shinji. I hope he is telling him only because there is more to it, nothing like good guys revealing there swords abilities. I love how Ichigo just burst onto the scene but use your surprise attack to inflicting damage. Also is Shinji still under Aizens hypnosis because seems like they would cancel each others out or Shinjis wouldn't work.

"I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them. "

Shinji's Shikai's pretty good, but against experienced fighters, especially like Kenpachi, its all a matter of how fast one can get used to it. Once against Aizen has the upper hand and it seems like ichigo can easily break free from his illusions some how. He is the "Chosen One"

Honestly, Shinji's shikai is an underpowered version of Tousen's bankai. Both have to do with sense distortion, but with Shinji's it's just literally distortion, whereas Tousen's is a complete shutdown of the senses.

Thinking about it that way it seems pretty lame. Sadly enough.

I have laid my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Makes me think Shinji's bankai is going to be a mirror type world where Shinji can attack from any mirror he wants and still do the reversal with mirror image off of the mirrors. Mirror-mirror-mirror image. haha.

The thing with Naruto and Bleach is there is so many characters that could use development but I think the writers feel that they need to cut some characters. Either that or it's going to be a long manga.